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Description: | An incomplete struck / knapped quartzite plano-convex pointed biface handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 800, 000 BC to c. 40,000 BC).The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84). Approximately 70% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 30% of the surface.The handaxe is incomplete as the tip has been broken away. The biface is ovular in shape with a thick profile. The butt is curved and made of cortex which is dark brown/grey in colour. The interior side has a central rise half way up from the butt, either side of which has been knapped. Along this central rise an errete has been made, roughly 10 mm from the tip. All cortex has been removed from the exterior side. The right side of the exterior face has been more heavily worked than the left, with an errete on the bottom right hand side. All worked areas are light brown/grey in colour. The handaxe has been subject to some damage by rolling and the tip has broken away and therefor can not be considered fresh. Though retouch marks are not visible, probable knapping marks can be seen.Length: 99.99 mmWidth: 80.34 mmThickness: 43.1 mmWeight: 399.5 gGlossary:Errete: Flake removal resulting in a concave depression.Reference: Graf, A., 2004. 'A cause for wonder: preliminary observations on further Palaeolithic surface finds by Ron Waite from around Nuneaton, Warwickshire'. Lithics - Journal of the Lithic Studies Society. 78-100.
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